I forgot to post on Thursday that I got thanked for saying “Passing on the right.” while I was biking on the sidewalk by the office to get to the bike racks. I was surprised, but it was nice too.
Thursday night we went to dinner at Cattleman’s for TM’s going away (he left for China Friday).
We had Friday off for Veteran’s day, so I did a bunch of unpacking in the kitchen and some sweeping and vacuuming. Then HK and I went to see Stranger Than Fiction, which was better than I thought it would be. And I just really enjoyed watching the movie with him. Afterward we walked down to Little Prague for dinner since I’ve been meaning to try them for ages. We got to sit outside right by an open brick fireplace with a live band singing and playing for us. We split a salmon dish, which I actually really liked with the lemon cream sauce it came with. We also tried the chocolate fudge cake with raspberry filling. You can’t really taste the raspberry at all sadly.
It was basically just a fabulous date. 
The next day I went to get my hair cut and funny enough both my stylist and I were thinking that next time we should do some color. I also swung by Meow’s and used his washer and dryer to get some laundry done and watched tv. I saw American Idol Rewind, a show on psychic kids, and Farscape. How’s that for diverse interests?
That night was the black & white ball “Masquerade in Monaco.” HK showed up at the door with a red rose which was such a sweet surprise. It made for a nice giddy start to the evening. The ball had great food (including desserts), great music, fabulous dancing to do and watch, a fun lesson, an awesome professional performance, wonderful company, classmates to see and new people to meet. We decided to do the pumpkin thing around midnight since my feet were finally really hurting. It was such a wonderfully romantic night.
Sunday was a bit of a lazy day together with HK, but we did get some of our chores done and then I made pasta to eat while we watched Laputa: Castle in the Sky, one of my favorite Miyazaki movies.
Oh, and I almost forgot, I’ve lost 2 more pounds! Yay!
And finally got Parallels running on my new work computer…. it’s soooooooooo much faster than VPC. Yay!
